Friday, 3 February 2012

MARY KATRANTZOU | SPRING'12

Mary Katrantzou spent every night
this summer swimming in pixels, the infinitely fluid medium of
computer-generated color she used “to paint” her swirling worlds of
print. During her long nights in front of the screen, she encountered
the crushed-car sculptures of the American artist John Chamberlain,
looked at tin-can labels, hovered over pictures of tropical fish, and
found fields of daisies and tulips online. “I couldn’t do trompe l’oeil
again,” she said. “So I was thinking—what would it be like if I mixed
something metallic with florals? I’ve never touched the natural world
before.” - Sarah Mower, Vogue.com